Posts Tagged: NPR
July 17, 2012
People, People Who Need Trees, are the Lucky 7-est People in the World
If you’re lucky enough to be near a window right now, go look out it. (If you’re lucky enough to be outside as you’re reading this, then just look around you — …
July 10, 2012
Lucky 7: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
“A sort of biographical thank you for the snail” Stuck in bed because of a debilitating illness, Elisabeth Tova Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. …
May 17, 2012
Tayari Jones: ‘My Story Wasn’t My Story Alone…’
“… It belongs to everyone.” Tayari Jones talks here about what led her to write Silver Sparrow, her compelling novel that is resonating with readers far and wide, from NPR to Ann …
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July 12, 2011
On Writing: Amy Stewart and Paul Collins
Amy Stewart and Paul Collins talk belles-lettres, the art of nonfiction, e-publishing, colonial mixed drinks, and cramming for your own interviews. Amy Stewart is the acclaimed author of Wicked Plants, Wicked Bugs, …
June 30, 2011
What We’re Reading: The Red Market by Scott Carney
I’ve been on a weird reading kick lately. When not reading manuscripts for work or new issues of Us Weekly (a top priority every Thursday evening), I’m usually immersed in a hot …
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June 21, 2011
On Writing: Alexander Chee and Tayari Jones
Alexander Chee, the author of Edinburgh, talks with Tayari Jones about her new novel Silver Sparrow. I first met Tayari Jones at the MacDowell Colony in 2007. It was summer, and …
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June 2, 2011
What You See in the Dark Giveaway!
We’re giving away five copies of Manuel Muñoz’s new novel What You See in the Dark and five gorgeous broadsides created by Ander Monson, the multi-talented author of Vanishing Point and Other …
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May 24, 2011
Publication Day: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
With the opening line of “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the …
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